No parades, but there’s been a serious uptick in flags flying from redneck trucks here in East Tennessee.
I’ve never understood what “southern heritage” is supposed to mean but I’m certainly not going to let that bullshit slide here where we supported the North.
A clueless 20 year old co-worker drove in with one and I couldn’t resist teaching him that East Tennessee was pro-union and that when Tennessee voted to secede from the Union, East Tennessee voted to secede from Tennessee. They had to send confederate soldiers here to occupy the area.
I told him that I was proud to be from the south (not really, just using the flagger’s logic against them) where we stick up for what we think is right and I thought it was offensive that he was flying the flag of the people who were sent here to force us to do what they wanted at gunpoint.
He kind of laughed uncomfortably and made a joke then went back to work, but the flag disappeared from his truck.
No parades here in rural Texas, but plenty of flags. We even have a school a couple of towns over that has the rebels as a mascot and the flag on the sign outside the school. There’s been a few news articles the flag on the school sign here recently, but they don’t show any sign of taking it down.
I saw two dudes walking through town with one of the carrying a Confederate flag. Well, sort of. I don’t think any Confederate flags included a motorcycle in the center of it but this one did. I can’t say I’ve noticed an upswing in Confederate flags here in Arkansas. I’m not exactly shocked when I see one but the only one I see daily is the one flying from the house on my commute to work.
I saw three today in Middle Tennessee. Two were large ones (maybe 2 ft by 3 ft) flying from pickups, and the third was a very large one on a flagpole outside a private residence. Idiots.
Haven’t seen a single one in Beijing…ever. A few months ago, though, I did see an odd car in a parking lot. the car had a lot of Nazi SS symbols. I think about two months after that, there was a new law put in place to prohibit such displays.
Hmm. I bet it’s a couple of random yahoos, though, not a lot of them. I drove by a house up here during the winter that had one displayed in their front window - it was memorable because it was so unusual.
We had 2 incidents here in Minnesota that I know of.
A fireman put that traitor flag on a city firetruck in a 4th of July parade. He’s been kicked off the Fire Department.
Some employee put that flag on a Home Depot truck that was representing them in a parade. The employee has been suspended, and the store manager is facing discipline (possibly termination) by company headquarters for allowing this damage to their company reputation. Meanwhile, a proposed boycott & picketing in front of their stores is on hold waiting for the company response. (But many customers are already taking their business elsewhere.)
Here in Minnesota, we were the first to respond when President Lincoln called for troops to defend the country when the Southern slaveholders attacked the USA. And we had a unit (the 1st Minnesota Volunteers) nearly wiped out (90% casualties) at Gettysburg. We don’t take kindly to people flying that traitors’ flag.
You used to see Confederate flags around here in southern Maryland during my first few years in this area. They largely disappeared after 9/11 when everyone was waving the Stars and Stripes, and haven’t made a comeback since that I’ve noticed.
Well, there’s one local asshole in a loud pickup truck who insists on flying the Confederate battle flag from his truck. But there’s near-universal agreement that he’s an asshole, and we’d all be happier if he moved to northern Idaho or wherever.
I’ve seen a couple here in NY, but that’s not a new development. There have always been a handful of people with the flags in their yards or on their trucks (it’s always a truck).
I haven’t seen or heard of any parades going on here in Raleigh.
My co-worker’s cleaning lady showed up to work shortly after the Charleston shootings with a brand new, huge Confederate flag decal on the back window of her car. My co-worker fired her - didn’t want the neighbors to see that parked out in front of her house.
We also have a couple teenagers down the road who are in a truck club (those big, monster-truck things) and they have flown huge Confederate flags on poles from the back of their trucks for awhile. Those have been removed now, though. One of them replaced his flag with an American flag. I think their mom must have drawn the line (finally).
I’m in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, which is a heavily 20-30s populated area. Rainbow flags are common, the display of the confederate flag would be highly unusual and the person wouldn’t get a good reaction
Good that you do, too, because there’s some dickhead driving around the north bay, flying a couple Confederate flags from the back of his pickup. Thankfully, San Francisco is well defended from the Confederate hordes of Marin County.